Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 137
kes and stop at once. There areother danger and cautionary signals I thinkyou will be especially interested in, added hisuncle, torpedoes and fusees, for instance. Atorpedo upon the rail is one of the most usedand most reliable of all the danger-signals. But I should nt think it would be… … ED BY A FUSEE-SIGNAL. but they are not the kind I mean. A railroadtorpedo is a round tin box, just about the sizeof a silver dollar, filled with percussion-powder.Attached to it are two little leaden strips thatcan be bent under the edges of the rail, so as tohold the torpedo firmly in position on…
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